SimpleQuest

A downloadable game for Windows

Saddled with the unfortunate name of "Hero," a young man arrives in the small village of Carp's Bend, searching for meaning. He probably won't find it there, but they'll give him something to do for a little while. There might even be a dragon involved.

The game is built as an homage to a simpler time, but with some nods to modern sensibilities and schedules. Got an itch for a 1990s RPG? SimpleQuest will scratch it without taking too much of your time.

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Hello there Kildorf, every so often I stop by the verge site either to download something I need :) but also always hoping verge is still being worked on. I will always love verge, I think we are all going to have a place in our hearts for whatever ide and or programming language we learn to code.

So I am must say I'm very happy to see your update. ^o^ Downloading now...

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Ill just throw this out there -- anyone using Unity atm? I'd love to marry verge to Unity -... cheers

Zonker! Glad to hear from you. :) Verge was definitely on my mind pretty constantly while working on SimpleQuest (and, while I continue to work on the Next Thing). I can't say I miss everything about VergeC ;) but I definitely miss a lot about the engine and everything around it. I miss having that community around and active. When did we get so old?

I've used Unity a little and I can't say it's my favourite, but some people have done some pretty awesome things with it. It could definitely do a 2d tile engine... (before I switched to the web-based stuff I was actually starting to build SimpleQuest in Unity).

Hello my old friend :) (Not sure if you remember me, but I was an old verger from days past) I just so happened to find this by randomly logging into twitter tonight and seeing something on Grue's feed.

I was very much enjoying this, but unfortunately encountered a bug. I saved in Lord Danger's Room after figuring out the first pattern, I missed the second pattern and tried to reload, and I may have broken it by doing so. Now whenever I try to load, it will load the map, but it won't load Hero and just freezes (though the music keeps playing).

My only real feedback I'd like to offer is it would be really great to be able to see my HP when using a healing item in the menu, as I found myself switching back and forth to see if I needed another potion or if a tonic would just do.

It is a bit difficult, in the beginning and I found myself going through healing items like crazy! But, I did enjoy the challenge.

The graphics are super nice, I love that there are no random battles, and certainly fits its namesake quite well!

It's just after midnight here so I'll crash for the night, but am planning on restarting and trying to get past Mr. Dragon when I'm on here next!

I'm actually working on something in good ol' V3 right now with a friend of mine from work....I'm surprised I still remember anything or how to use it, but it always seemed like the only engine I was ever any good at.

Thanks for giving it a try! For the first two bugs, any chance you could tell me what sort of specs your machine has? As for the ghosts, yes, some of them are intentionally non-violent. Sorry for the confusion. :)